Tristram Stuart

Tristram Stuart (born: London 1977) is an English author and historian.

Stuart read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in 1999; his directors of studies were Peter Holland and John Lennard. He has written for newspapers in India and the United Kingdom, and has occasionally appeared on UK radio and television as an exponent of freeganism. He is the author of The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India (Harper Collins Ltd, 2006) published in the United States as The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism From 1600 to Modern Times (W.W. Norton, 2007) and Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal (Penguin, 2009).

He lives in England and in December 2009 organized "Feeding of 5000" in London's Trafalgar Square in which 5,000 people will be served soup from cast off vegetables and other dishes to raise awareness for reducing food waste.

External links

• Tristram Stuart's website
• Articles by Tristram Stuart in The Guardian
• The scandal of food waste, Financial Times July 3, 2009
• Food waste feature in The Sun newspaper, The Sun July 6, 2009
• Kevin Rushby, "Green Thoughts from Abroad" Review in The Guardian September 2006
• Edward Rothstein, "The Way of No Flesh," New York Times, February 25, 2007
• Bee Wilson's review of "Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal" in The Sunday Times, July 2009
• Interview with Tristram Stuart on The Global Food Scandal, in The Browser, December 2009